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Kosmas Prassides
Kosmas Prassides is a Greek-born solid-state chemist, educated at Oxford, known for work on molecular superconductivity in fullerides, including record 38 K superconductivity in Cs3C60.
Krijn P. de Jong
Krijn P. de Jong, also known as K.P. de Jong, is a Dutch materials chemist and emeritus professor of inorganic chemistry and catalysis at Utrecht University, born in 1954.
Krishnan Raghavachari
Krishnan Raghavachari is an Indian-born theoretical and computational chemist, Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, best known as principal author of the CCSD(T) method, the gold standard of quantum chemistry.
Kristian Sommer Thygesen
Kristian Sommer Thygesen, also published as Kristian S. Thygesen, is a computational materials scientist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark, leading the open C2DB database of 2D materials.
Kristie Boering
Kristie Boering is an atmospheric chemist and Templeton Professor at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, known for isotope tracers of atmospheric chemistry.
Kristin DeWitt
Kristin DeWitt, known as Kristy DeWitt, is an American physical chemist who led IARPA chemical-detection programs and joined the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in 2021.
Kristin Persson
Kristin A. Persson is a professor of materials science at UC Berkeley and, since 2011, director of the Materials Project, an open database of computed materials properties.
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is a polymer chemist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, teaching there since 1985, best known for discovering atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) in 1994 and winning the 2011 Wolf Prize.
Krzysztof Szalewicz
Krzysztof Szalewicz is a Polish-born American physicist at the University of Delaware known for co-developing symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) and predicting molecular crystal structures from first principles.
Kui Yu
Kui Yu (余睽) is a materials chemist who studies how colloidal semiconductor quantum dots and magic-size clusters form, and a professor at Sichuan University since 2014.
Kun Na
Kun Na (나건) is a South Korean professor of biomedical chemical engineering at the Catholic University of Korea, known for polymeric biomaterials and drug delivery research.
Kuo‐Wei Huang
Kuo-Wei Huang, known professionally as Andy Huang, is a Taiwanese chemist and professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia who works on catalysis, electrocatalysis, and formic acid as an energy carrier.
Kurt Alder
Kurt Alder (1902–1958) was a German chemist who, with his teacher Otto Diels, discovered the Diels–Alder reaction and shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it.
Kurt Bennewitz
Kurt Bennewitz (1886–1964) was a German physical chemist, professor at Jena from 1927 and later at Würzburg and Stuttgart, nominated for the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Kurt Mislow
Kurt Mislow was a German-born American stereochemist who held the Hugh Stott Taylor Professorship at Princeton University, pioneered modern chirality theory, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Kurt Peters (chemist)
Kurt Peters (1897–1978) was an Austrian chemist who trained under Walther Nernst, helped convert methane to acetylene, and served as rector of the Vienna Institute of Technology.
Kurunthachalam Kannan
Kurunthachalam Kannan is an environmental toxicologist and analytical chemist at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, known for 2001 surveys showing perfluorinated chemicals had spread worldwide.
Kwabena Bediako
Kwabena Bediako is a Ghanaian-born chemist who studies electrocatalysis and two-dimensional materials as an associate professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Kwang S. Kim
Kwang S. Kim, also known as Kwang Soo Kim, is a South Korean theoretical and computational chemist at UNIST who designs functional nanomaterials and nanodevices by quantum-chemical calculation.
Kwangyeol Lee
Kwangyeol Lee (이광렬) is a South Korean chemist who joined Korea University in Seoul in 2003, working on nanocrystal synthesis and electrocatalysts for water splitting and fuel cells.
Kyeng Min Park
Kyeng Min Park (박경민) is a South Korean supramolecular chemist known for cucurbituril host–guest chemistry, including a supramolecular latching system for protein imaging; he has taught at Daegu Catholic University since 2021.
Kyle Anderson (chemist)
Kyle W. Anderson is an American research chemist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who leads its HDX-MS program for biopharmaceutical analysis and won a 2025 PECASE.
Kyoko Nozaki
Kyoko Nozaki (野崎京子) is a Japanese chemist known for homogeneous catalysis and organometallic chemistry, a professor at the University of Tokyo since 2003 who designs molecular catalysts that put carbon dioxide to use.
Kyoung-Shin Choi
Kyoung-Shin Choi (최경신) is a South Korean electrochemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for bismuth vanadate photoanodes for solar water splitting.
Kyriakos Costa Nicolaou
Kyriakos Costa Nicolaou, also known as K.C. Nicolaou, is a Cypriot-born American organic chemist known for the total synthesis of Taxol and other complex natural products.
Lai‐Sheng Wang
Lai-Sheng Wang is an experimental physical chemist who became chair of chemistry at Brown University in 2019, known for golden buckyballs, the Au20 gold pyramid, and all-boron fullerenes.
Larry E. Overman
Larry E. Overman, born in 1943, is an American organic chemist at the University of California, Irvine, known for the Overman rearrangement and over 100 total syntheses of natural products.
Larry Gold
Larry Gold is an American molecular biologist affiliated with SomaLogic in Boulder, Colorado, and the University of Colorado, known for SELEX and the SOMAmer-based SomaScan proteomics platform.
Lars Konermann
Lars Konermann is a chemist and professor at Western University known for protein mass spectrometry and for work on the mechanism of electrospray ionization.
Lars Sillén
Lars Gunnar Sillén (1916–1970) was a Swedish chemist, professor of inorganic chemistry at KTH in Stockholm, who created the first model of ocean chemistry regulation.